Two researchers from the future are sent back in time to meet Jane Austen and recover a
suspected unpublished novel. ENGLAND 1815:Two travelers?Rachel Katzman and Liam
Finucane?arrive in a field disheveled and weighed down with hidden money. They are not what
they seem but colleagues from a technologically advanced future posing as wealthy West Indies
planters?a doctor and his spinster sister. While Rachel and Liam aren't the first team from the
future to ?go back ? their mission is by far the most audacious: meet befriend and steal from
Jane Austen herself. Carefully selected and rigorously trained by the Royal Institute for
Special Topics in Physics disaster-relief doctor Rachel and actor-turned-scholar Liam have
little in common besides the extraordinary circumstances they find themselves in?circumstances
that call for Rachel to stifle her independent nature and let Liam take the lead as they
infiltrate Austen's circle via her favorite brother Henry. But diagnosing Jane's fatal illness
and obtaining an unpublished novel hinted at in her letters pose enough of a challenge without
the continuous convolutions of living a lie. While her friendship with Jane deepens and her
relationship with Liam grows complicated Rachel fights to reconcile her true self with the
constrictions of nineteenth-century society. As their portal to the future prepares to close
Rachel and Liam struggle with their directive to leave history intact and exactly as they found
it . . . however heartbreaking that may prove.
